Movies Similar to House on Elm Lake

Prince of Darkness(1987)

A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open it, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all of humanity.

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Hellraiser(1987)

Hedonist Frank Cotton finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons the Cenobites, who open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.

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The Ghost(2025)

Amid the barren landscape of post-famine Ireland, a father and daughter struggle to survive the brutal winter as caretakers of a remote mansion, only to be driven to the edge of sanity by the horrors lurking within.

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The Haunting of Hythe House(2021)

Danny loves trolling indie filmmakers online. When a voice named Control hijacks his computer, Danny is sent to an isolated abandoned mansion to unravel a mystery that could make him a millionaire.

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Thir13en Ghosts(2001)

Arthur and his two children inherit his uncle's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to twelve ghosts. When the family, accompanied by a nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine 'designed by the Devil and powered by the dead' to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by a ghost hunter and his rival, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.

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Candyman(1992)

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

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Virus(1999)

When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.

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States of Mind(2024)

Students Ali and Vanessa arrive at the mansion on the hill for a weekend of psychic competition. The competition pays well, especially for the winner. They're met by the eccentric Professor Manchester, barely four feet tall, and an assortment of colourful competitors. Every guest has story and a secret. When one guest falls ill; Ali learns he's being treated with an exorcism! As a storm takes out the power, much more than prize money is at stake. In a race against time, Ali and Vanessa must plan a way to escape, all while fighting for their lives. But whose plan are they really part of?

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What Lies Beneath(2000)

When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire investigates, she discovers that the man she loves might know more than he's letting on.

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The Blair Witch Project(1999)

In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.

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The Heretics(2017)

A young girl is abducted by a man, who claims that a cult is hunting her. His goal is to protect her until sunrise but while restrained, the young girl falls deathly ill. While her friends and family search for her, the source of her illness becomes more and more apparent. She’s not sick…she’s changing.

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The Others(2001)

Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

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House of the Disappeared(2017)

After being wrongly imprisoned for murdering her husband, a woman returns to the house where the incident occurred to solve the mystery of his death.

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Ismail Yassine in the House of Ghosts(1951)

Ismail Yassin and his relatives have to spend a month living in a haunted house in order to collect their inheritance.

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Phantasm(1979)

A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.

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The Skeleton Key(2005)

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

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The Vigil(2020)

A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds himself opposite a malevolent entity.

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The Orphanage(2007)

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

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Beyond the Darkness(1979)

A disturbed young embalmer digs the grave of his recently deceased girlfriend and brings her body to his family villa with help from his strange housekeeper. But his bouts of insanity are just beginning.

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Shock(1977)

A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son.

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